Tag Archives: Graphics

Back in April, Crytek officially announced Crysis Remastered, bringing back the hardware-crippling shooter with all of the latest graphical enhancements that CryEngine has to offer. We haven't seen much of the game in action, but the gameplay trailer has hit the web and we have some screenshots too.  The Crysis Remastered …

Intel's chief architect for graphics, Raja Koduri, has published a picture of what appears to be Intel's upcoming Xe GPUs, describing them as a “BFP” – or “big fabulous package”. The upcoming Xe GPUs from Intel are designed to scale from integrated graphics all the way up to the high-end segment. …

Announced at CES 2020, AMD SmartShift is a technology that dynamically shifts power between the CPU and GPU depending on the situation, which should enable higher performance. However, the technology is yet to really take off, and now the Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions at AMD has said that only one laptop model …

After a lengthy wait, Nvidia's next GPU architecture, Ampere, has been unveiled.

Intel has been releasing graphics drivers for quite some time now. However, the latest edition – version 26.20.100.8141 released on April 27 – comes with a big change. Intel has decided to release an unlocked version of its graphics drivers. Until now Intel has released its graphics driver through its …

One of the highlights of AMD's Financial Analyst Day yesterday was the insight given about the new RDNA 2 GPU architecture, which has now been codenamed “Navi 2X”. During AMD's Financial Analyst Day, the company shared data about its financial developments. The company also revealed technical details about coming releases and …

This could mean we will see the new mobile GPUs any day now...

Back at CES, Intel showed off its first Xe-based GPU in action, but not the one we were hoping for. We are still waiting to see Intel's first high-power discrete graphics card and thanks to a leak this week, we know a little bit more about one of the bigger …

Back in early 2017, we learned that Apple would soon be ending its long-running deal with UK GPU maker, Imagination Technologies. At the time, Apple said its plan was to start designing and producing its own GPUs for iOS devices, similarly to how it brought CPU design in-house a few years ago. As they …

One of the more unexpected announcements at E3 this year was the return of Microsoft Flight Simulator, with a brand new version coming next year. The initial reveal trailer already showcased some impressive visuals but with testers now getting their hands on the pre-alpha version, we are starting to see …

In late 2017 and over 2018, Intel went on quite the hiring spree for its graphics division. Raja Koduri switched over from AMD to begin developing the Intel Xe discrete GPU architecture, while Chris Hook left AMD's marketing division to help Intel's GPU marketing. Now, there seems to have been …

Tile-based rendering isn't new to NVIDIA GPUs, but tile-based rendering in multi-GPU systems is another thing- and it looks like the building blocks are already secretly in place in Nvidia's drivers.

AMD has announced the RX 5500 series, available for both laptops and desktops, targeting 1080p gamers

If you are one of the unlucky GeForce GPU users to encounter some technical issues with Nvidia's latest Game Ready driver update, then you will want to check for another update as a hotfix was released yesterday. Nvidia recently released the Game Ready driver 436.48, containing day-one optimisations for Ghost Recon Breakpoint …

DirectX 12 was recently updated with Variable-Rate Shading (VRS), giving developers the ability to improve performance by reducing the level of details in parts of a frame where you are unlikely to notice an impact on image quality. Not many games have implemented this technology just yet but to see …

AMD has been making a habit of showing up at E3 for a few years now. Back in 2015, we saw Lisa Su arrive to launch the Radeon R9 Fury. One year later, AMD returned to the gaming-focused event to show off DOOM running on Ryzen, while also announcing the …

Intel has confirmed that former Nvidia technical marketing director and distinguished engineer, Tom Petersen, has joined the Intel Graphics team.

Intel's hiring spree continues as reports claim that Tom Petersen has departed NVIDIA to join Team Blue.

This month, Nvidia showcased one of the first proof-of-concept demos for the real-time creation of video game graphics. The new tech showcase focuses on a real-time driving simulation that covers a few city blocks, with AI generating in-game graphics based off of real-world footage.  The demo is purely focused on …

It is a game under a lot of controversy - but Melissa is a big fan, does she like it or is it as bad as some people are making out ?

It's been a long time coming, but the new generation of Nvidia GPUs is finally here

While Intel's integrated GPUs have never been a particularly strong option for PC gaming, it is an option that many still use to this date. In fact, Steam's hardware survey will often show Intel iGPUs among the most used. To help those users, Intel is introducing a new feature to …

Samsung is preparing for the next wave of graphics cards by kicking off mass production on the industry's first 16-Gigabit GDDR6 memory

The Aorus GTX 1080Ti Xtreme Edition 11G is £800 worth of high end graphics card while the Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 and Z370 Aorus Ultra Gaming are two brand new motherboards ready for the launch of Intel 8th Generation CPUs with the Z370 chipset.

After many weeks of sifting through early/leaked information, the RX 500 series has officially landed and as we have known for a while, the new range is a Polaris refresh. Given that the chips under the hood are so similar, it looks like some are experimenting with flashing their older …

ASUS has slapped a triple-fan cooler and 115MHz overclock onto GTX 1080 Ti. Is this the best graphics card you can buy?

AMD is continuing to champion its new idea of ‘rebellion' in the PC space, with the upcoming debut of its Vega graphics architecture this Thursday at the CES 2017 show. To get us all even more hyped, it's released a new trailer which metaphorically and literally bangs the drum for …

Gaming on Macs has never been quite as easy as it has been on Windows systems. Part of that is a software issue, but it's also always been harder to get yourself a powerful graphics card at a decent price with Apple hardware. The Wolfe is looking to change that, …

AMD's latest 16.6.1 driver release has added support for a couple of new games, a new Crossfire profile for Dark Souls III and has improved performance and stability in a number of new releases. There's still a few issues with the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay, but it's being worked on …

AMD said last year with its big Crimson driver update and back-end restructuring, that its drivers would in future come more frequently and be better than ever before. It's looking to continue that practice now with the certified release of the 16.4.2 Crimson driver, bringing with it all of the …